41. The United States has threatened military action unless Milosevic calls off his bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanian rebels seeking independence from Serbia, the main republic of Yugoslavia. 42. Treason charges are expected to be added later for their alleged involvement in a bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising several months later. 43. Wang, a leader of the protests, was imprisoned after the bloody crackdown on the democracy movement. 44. Austria is ready to support economic sanctions against Russia in protest against the bloody crackdown, Foreign Minister Alois Mock said in Vienna. 45. Austria is ready to support economic sanctions against Russia in protest against its bloody crackdown in Chechnya, Foreign Minister Alois Mock said Wednesday. 46. Five years before the bloody crackdown in the central Beijing square, Deng was at the peak of his popularity. 47. The separatists have recently stepped up their activities, provoking what exiled Uighur groups in neighbouring Kazakhstan say is a bloody crackdown by Chinese security forces. 48. Memories of dictatorship and repression remain strong in east Germany, where the Berlin Wall collapsed just months after the bloody crackdown in China against the pro-democracy movement. 49. Several hundred student protesters were killed in the bloody crackdown, according to unofficial estimates. 50. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev assured US Secretary of State Warren Christopher on Tuesday that Russia is committed to democracy and capitalism despite its bloody crackdown in Chechnya. |